Manage Publishing and Sharing (Control student permissions)

Write About helps you make writing visible in your classroom and school. Publishing to a safe, authentic audience can have a lasting positive impact on your student writers.

Teachers have full control over the privacy of their students’ work using individualized permissions to help scaffold their students' experience.

Each student can have the following permissions Enabled or Disabled. Sample:

Student

Publish Publicly

Moderate Posts

Moderate Comments

Student1

X

X

Student2

X

X

X

Student3

X

X

Reminder: Only student first names display with their work and teachers can delete work or revert Posts back to drafts at any time.

What these permissions do:

PUBLISH PUBLICLY (Who can see their writing?)

If Enabled, the Public privacy layer will display as an option for the student when publishing a Post:

If Enabled and the student selects "Public" when publishing a Post, their writing will display in the following places:

the Community Posts feed for all Write About users to view (also available publicly at writeabout.com/posts)

Your Public Class Page

The student's Author Page

If Disabled, the student will only be able to publish a Post to their Class (all your students). Local private publishing to the School is available with School plans.

Recommended for "Publish Publicly": Start with this disabled while giving students time to practice publishing their writing to the Class. Then, discuss and model when publishing their writing Publicly is appropriate and beneficial.

MODERATE POSTS (Require teacher approval before the writing is published to anyone other than me?)

If Enabled, student Posts that are published beyond the "Teacher" privacy layer will be held for your moderation.

Recommended for "Moderate Posts": This depends on the age of your students and their experience sharing their writing to an audience. The more you model, scaffold their practice, and show them positive peer examples, the better they will get at purposefully publishing writing they are proud of. Over time, teachers should be able to focus less on Moderation and more on Feedback and Celebration.

Recommended for "Moderate Comments": Modeling and practice are important for students to become positive and helpful commenters. Start with moderation enabled and then use a gradual release of control as individual students demonstrate appropriate comments. The less moderation you have to do, the more time you can spend on Feedback and Celebration.

When you have Posts or Comments being held for moderation, a notification will appear on your Home page when you sign in: